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The eager taxpayer and the evasive collector: fiscal relations in peri-urban Bolivia

24 April 2019, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

Shot of a street scene in Bolivia

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

£6.00

Organiser

Anglo-Bolivian Society

Location

103
Institute of the Americas
51 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PN

Miranda will discuss her recent research into taxes in the peri-urban areas of Cochabamba. In considering the wider culture and day-to-day realities that taxpayers live within she looks beyond simple barriers to fiscal expansion to examine why some taxes are paid and others not. This includes moments when the state avoids collection and thereby fiscally excludes part of the population. The research examines the varying morals and exchange logics that different taxes imply and shows that taxes are an important part of how people consider and craft their own citizenship, relationships with the state and fellow citizens.

Concessions

non-members £6, members £5, students (with ID) £3

About the Speaker

Miranda Sheild Johansson

Miranda Sheild Johansson received her PhD in anthropology in 2014 from the London School of Economics and has worked as a teaching fellow at UCL. Shield Johansson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working on a research project titled Becoming a Tax Payer: Fiscal Expansion and Economic Subjectivities in Bolivia.